The Bear Shifter’s Desires by Martha Woods

Author:Martha Woods [Woods, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-04T04:00:00+00:00

Knock. Knock. Knock.

“Whu-” Shane opened his eyes, leaning sleepily on his elbow and looking around the room, taking a few moments to realize the sound was coming from the entrance to his small house. Three knocks, slow and deliberate, and alarm bells almost started to ring out before he recognized the soft, somewhat scratchy voice that called out to him through the thick wood.

“Shane?” Holly called out, knocking three times again and audibly shivering before she spoke again, “Are you ok? Todd called me and asked me to come check on you, he thought something could have happened to you?”

Matt, right, He thought to himself, Shit, I should have realized.

“Give me a sec!” Falling out of bed and scrambling up, he wiped a hand down his face to sweep away the exhaustion as he moved forward, bumping into the sofa and dropping his phone to the floor. Closing his hand around the handle and pulling it open, he tried his best to smile at his unexpected guest before he broke his composure with a face splitting yawn. “Sorry, I guess I was a lot more tired than I thought.”

“I’ll say,” Holly replied, smiling gently at the sight of him, “Do you mind if I come in? It’s cold as hell out here.”

“Oh, yeah yeah come on in,” He said, stepping to the side and letting her enter, “Place is kind of a mess, I wasn’t expecting to see anyone today, you know.”

“I figured, that message you sent apparently got Burnie and Todd in a bit of a worry.” Plopping herself down on the couch, Holly shrugged out of her coat and pulled out a small thermos, placing it down on the table in front of her. “I made you some coffee, it’s probably shit but at least it’s something.”

“You run a bar, and you can’t make coffee?” He asked, smiling with amusement, “Kind of a weird mix.”

“I specialize in cold drinks that come out of a tap, it’s not like anyone out here’s ordering a cocktail regularly either. They barely know what whiskey actually is.”

“Well, thanks for the coffee anyway.” Sitting down and pouring himself out a cup, he offered her a cup before he asked, “So what were they worried about anyway? That I’d gotten myself shot and buried out in the forest somewhere?”

“Something along those lines, yeah. Something about you and Matt really not seeing eye to eye on some things, and everyone knows that Matt can be a real asshole about some of those things.” Leaning forward, she propped her chin up with her hand and looked at him with an analytical gaze. “Did something happen between the two of you?”

“Well, he tried to ambush me with two of his cronies yesterday at work, figured that he’d get a couple hits in to make me regret making a fool of him, since I broke some unspoken rule about letting him just win whatever he wanted.”

“That’s not surprising, again, he can be a real asshole about some of these things.

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